Admissions Overview

South College offers more than 60 degree and certificate programs in Knoxville, Asheville, Nashville, and Atlanta to help you become a more knowledgeable and marketable professional. Each curriculum is designed to prepare you for the career of your choice in a challenging and supportive environment. We’re here with you every step of the way, starting with the admissions process.

Academics Overview

South College offers more than 60 Certificate, Associate, Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral programs to meet the needs of students across Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia. We are constantly developing new academic programs based on local, regional, and national employment trends for our locations in Knoxville, Nashville, Asheville and online. Each curriculum is designed is to prepare you for the career of your choice in a challenging and supportive environment. We’re here with you every step of the way, starting with the admissions process.

Business

Open Doors with a Career in Business

Whether you want to start your own business or advance in your current career, earning a business degree with South College may be the path for you. A business degree equips you with valuable skills in problem solving, finance, analytics, communication and more.

With our concentrations* develop a deeper understanding in topics such as:

Business Analytics

Entrepreneurship

Finance

Healthcare Administration

Marketing

Supply Chain Management

At South College gain the knowledge you need to work toward reaching your goals and help your dreams find direction. Request information now or learn more about our programs below.

*South College’s Undergraduate Business and Accounting degree programs are currently offered Online, with core and several major courses also available at the Knoxville, Asheville, and Nashville campuses. Students may enroll at the identified campuses for these programs, but online courses are necessary for completion of the program (Hybrid).

PROGRAMS AVAILABLE

With this degree, you’ll be prepared to seek entry-level employment in the accounting field in areas such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, bookkeeping, and accounting office management positions. These positions may be found in such diverse sectors as business, health, government, manufacturing, and social services.

The Associate of Science in Business Administration program is designed to offer students broad exposure to the foundational and emerging business skills needed to begin working in a business environment.

The Bachelor of Business Administration program prepares students to enter the constantly evolving worlds of business, government, and industry with course content designed to develop real-world skills. Coursework expands to cover corporate finance, global business, economics, human resource management, managerial accounting, and more.

CONCENTRATIONS

When you pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a Concentration in Accounting, you’re entering a curriculum designed to train professionals to thrive in the diverse, dynamic global financial industry by taking courses in management and organizational behavior, managing business ethics, corporate finance, financial reporting for corporations, auditing, federal income tax, principles of auditing, and more.

With our Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) program with a Concentration in Business Analytics, you’ll gain a firm business foundation and explore how to analyze and model large amounts of data to inform strategic business decisions and policies.

In this concentration of our Bachelor of Business Administration program, you’ll learn the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs as well as how to identify and create opportunities for innovation within existing organizations.

The Bachelor of Business Administration with a Concentration in Finance can prepare you for a wide variety of business and finance careers. Throughout the program, you’ll complete projects that strengthen your analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

You can be part of a workforce that provides vital health and wellness services to those who need them. Medical facilities and programs staffed by well-trained, capable, and knowledgeable professionals raise the overall standard of healthcare, treatment, public education, and patient satisfaction in their communities.

This concentration of our Bachelor of Business Administration program can prepare you for a variety of careers, including supervisory and management roles in hotels, restaurants, and other organizations in the hospitality and service industries.

When you pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration with a Concentration in Human Resource Management, you work to gain foundational business knowledge, as well as develop HR knowledge that is an essential part of every workplace. HR professionals are responsible for providing information, support, and even advocacy on behalf of all employees and help to help make working environments more productive and inclusive.

The Bachelor of Business Administration program with a Concentration in Marketing at South College is designed to provide you with business foundation and a deeper understanding of marketing concepts and their application, whether you’re working in a business or an agency.

Project managers serve a vital role across nearly every industry, working to implement company initiatives or execute strategy. The Bachelor of Business Administration program with a Concentration Project Management focuses on equipping students with the education and skills to prepare them for the demands of a global economy.

In this concentration of our Bachelor of Business Administration program, you’ll learn the basics of business and marketing as well as how to use social media strategy to achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace. You’ll cover how to measure social media impact, integrate social media within an overall marketing plan, and apply best practices across various platforms.

This concentration of our BBA program can help equip you to work in a wide range of organization with the focus on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations and logistics. You’ll explore how to boost productivity and support organizational goals through the strategic acquisition, movement, and management of products and services.

As an MBA student, you will analyze business strategies, develop a marketing plan, devise a capital budgeting strategy, create business reports, and much more. In the program’s capstone course, you will conduct a thorough investigation of a business dilemma and make a plan to resolve the issue using principles of accounting, finance, marketing, economics, analytics, and management.

CONCENTRATIONS

The MBA program with a concentration in Accounting can help equip you to prepare and examine financial statements, accurately prepare financial documentation, perform audits, and perform tax preparation. The curriculum is designed to prepare you for a career in such positions as a marketing manager, trust officer, or financial auditor.

The MBA program with a concentration in Business Analytics focuses on education you can apply immediately, with a strategic balance of theoretical and practical coursework. The curriculum is designed to build the critical thinking skills you need to interpret data and solve business problems, incorporating principles of data analysis, accounting, finance, marketing, economics, and management.

In the MBA program with a Concentration in Criminal Justice at South College, you’ll hone vital skills that are necessary for advanced management and leadership roles within public criminal justice institutions, corporations, legal organizations, or private security firms. Many types of businesses and institutions employ security professionals to handle safety and security issues and to administer loss prevention and liability control.

A focus on real-world applicability informs all of the courses in this MBA concentration, which examines the way real businesses and financial institutions handle daily operations and plan for long-term financial goals.

With course content designed around real-world scenarios and experienced faculty who are eager to help you succeed, this MBA concentration is designed to provide a balance of theoretical and practical coursework exploring how businesses operate, particularly those in the healthcare industry.

The South College MBA program with a Concentration in Information Systems Management is designed to provide a balance of theoretical and practical coursework exploring how information systems influence and transform business operations.

Marketing is an essential component of success for businesses today, and companies are expected to maintain a presence on an increasing number of channels. This MBA concentration is designed to prepare you for that challenge with a balance of theoretical and practical coursework that further develops the critical thinking and analytical skills you need to compete.

Your education in this MBA concentration will focus on the skills you need to complete projects on time and within scope, working with both upper management and the different departments you rely on to execute project deliverables.

Success at South College

I really enjoy that most classes are not straight reading from a book, listening to PowerPoint presentations, taking a test and then moving to the next chapter. The instructors take the time to have class discussions and incorporate real world examples. To me, this makes the material more interesting and puts what I am learning into a better perspective.

- Samantha Williams, Master of Business Administration

I like South College because of the other students and the teachers that go out of their way to make sure you are good. The administration seems to really care. That’s what I like about South College – we are family.

- Eric Lee Miller, Associate of Science in Business Administration

I am currently in the Bachelor’s of Business Administration program with a Concentration in Accounting. I felt that given my personal interests, strengths, and skills, that a career in accounting would be the right choice. Also, I wanted to choose something that had the potential to allow work/life balance in the future as both are important to me.